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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 245, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2006, 5:51 PM CDT for Autauga County, Chilton County, Alabama. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 2006, 5:51 PM CDT (22:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2006, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Autauga County, AL, Chilton County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 55 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 463 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1091 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 2, 3:02 PM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 3:02 PM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 302 PM CDT FRI JUN 2 2006 .SHORT TERM...(TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT) IT IS TURNING INTO ONE BUSY FRIDAY AFTERNOON ON RADAR AS A FRONT APPROACHES CENTRAL ALABAMA. BREAKS IN THE CLOUDS HAVE ALLOWED TEMPERATURES TO CLIMB INTO THE MID AND UPPER 80S, HELPING SOME OF THE CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY REACH STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE LIMITS. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THIS ACTIVITY CONTINUES TO BE HEAVY RAIN. THIS SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING AS THE FRONT PUSHES THROUGH THE AREA. WE HAVE CARRIED SLIGHT CHANCE OF POPS FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA FOR TONIGHT AND TOMORROW MORNING AS THE FRONT SAGS SOUTH AND EAST. SKIES WILL CLEAR FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEKEND, WITH TEMPERATURE READINGS DROPPING BACK DOWN INTO THE MID 80S. DRIER AIR WILL FILTER INTO THE REGION WITH PREVAILING NORTHERLY FLOW AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES. .LONG TERM...(MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY) NOT MUCH TO SPEAK ABOUT IN THIS TIME FRAME. UNFORTUNATELY, CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN ON THE DRY SIDE. THE GFS HINTS AT A MCS OR TWO MOVING TOWARD CENTRAL ALABAMA IN NORTHWESTERLY FLOW, BUT CONFIDENCE IN THESE FEATURES IS LOW AT THIS TIME. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS RETURNS ON THURSDAY AS ANOTHER FRONT APPROACHES THE AREA. AS FOR TEMPERATURES, READINGS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE WEEK WILL BE AROUND AVERAGE FOR THIS TIME OF THE YEAR BUT WILL QUICKLY REBOUND INTO THE 90S FOR THE WEEKS END. LOW TEMPERATURES WILL RANGE FROM THE UPPER 50S EARLY IN THE WEEK, MODERATING TO THE UPPER 60S BY FRIDAY. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... GADSDEN 62 82 56 83 / 30 10 10 10 ANNISTON 64 85 58 85 / 40 10 10 10 BIRMINGHAM 62 83 59 85 / 30 10 10 10 TUSCALOOSA 64 86 60 86 / 30 10 10 10 CALERA 64 85 59 86 / 40 10 10 10 AUBURN 67 86 60 87 / 50 10 10 10 MONTGOMERY 67 87 62 88 / 50 10 10 10 TROY 68 87 61 88 / 50 10 10 10 && .BMX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AL...NONE. && 92/JSS
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 12:41 PM CDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1241 PM CDT FRI JUN 2 2006 ALZ011>015-017>050-031747- AUTAUGA-BARBOUR-BIBB-BLOUNT-BULLOCK-CALHOUN-CHAMBERS-CHEROKEE- CHILTON-CLAY-CLEBURNE-COOSA-DALLAS-ELMORE-ETOWAH-FAYETTE-GREENE-HALE- JEFFERSON-LAMAR-LEE-LOWNDES-MACON-MARENGO-MARION-MONTGOMERY-PERRY- PICKENS-PIKE-RANDOLPH-RUSSELL-SHELBY-ST CLAIR-SUMTER-TALLADEGA- TALLAPOOSA-TUSCALOOSA-WALKER-WINSTON- 1241 PM CDT FRI JUN 2 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE COUNTIES SERVED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BIRMINGHAM. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA FROM NOON UNTIL 8 PM. WIND GUSTS 30 TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE FROM WEST TO EAST THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. NO ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. WET MICROBURST POTENTIAL: BIRMINGHAM...MODERATE. MONTGOMERY...MODERATE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. KSL
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Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar | 26 min |
| Jun 2, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale | 30 min |
| Jun 2, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 43 min |
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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.